The Continuing Legal Education Commission allows credit for in-house programming under CLE Rule 4.13. An in-house activity is defined as "a continuing legal education program given by, for, or to a select private audience from the same law firm, corporation or single governmental entity, not open for admission to other members of the legal community generally."  When determining if a program is in-house, the Commission looks at attendees and advertising, not the provider of the education.

The law firm, corporation or single government entity for whom the program is offered shall assume responsibility for gaining accreditation. For example, instructors may be provided by the National Institute for Trial Advocacy but the host of the seminar is responsible for submitting the application for approval of CLE activity and following correct procedures to meet the requirements for accreditation. The Application for Approval of CLE Activity must be received in the Commission office 30 days prior to the activity and include date, time and place of the activity.

To meet the requirements for a program open to the public, not falling into the guidelines of in-house programming, the audience must be made up of a minimum of 25% outside attendees. Outside attendees are defined as those attendees who are not clients or members of the entity offering the program. The program must include outside publicity as approved by the Commission.

Attorneys are limited to a total of 5 hours of in-house CLE credit each compliance period.

10/30/06